Celebrating life!

            This award-winning, multi-national production of 2013 piques not just one’s romantic interest but also intrigues one. The Lunchbox is a tale of certainly lunches, but it is much more than that. The movie tells the tale of Ila Sehgal who wants to bring romance back into her marriage by possibly trying to cook delicious lunches for her husband. She sends the lunches through the famed dabbawala system of Mumbai. Due to a mix-up, her lunch instead gets delivered to the widower Saajan Fernandes, who is about to retire from his job as an accountant. Realizing the mistake, Sehgal sends a letter with the lunchbox to Fernandes. The exchange of letters starts of a friendship between them that eventually leads to much more. The tale here is not in the telling but in the portrayal of everyday events, in the life of the characters, through the epistolary mode. One gets to know of the simple and the complex thoughts of Sehgal and Fernandes through the...

Having read the novel on which the movie is based, many years ago, I like the rest of the world had thought this would be an impossible movie to make. But what expected was certainly not what I ended up viewing: a classic movie. Life of Pi has you in its thrall from the first. Considering that even the Booker-prize winning author of the original book (2001) Yann Martel approved, it is hard not to like the film.  While the 3D version has been highly acclaimed, the regular 2D version is also great to watch and watch you must, movie buff or not. The film begins with the haunting voice of Bombay Jayashree, which had the North Indian in the seat next to me wondering if it was a Malayalam movie. With the initial, captivating shots of the animals in the zoo the movie will have your undivided attention for the entire 127 minutes. The movie takes place in early twentieth century Pondicherry. The protagonist is a sixteen-year old boy Piscine Molitor Patel, named after a swimming...